Top Chef quickfire challenge sponsored by Cracker Barrel with the redesigned logo that was briefly the worst thing to happen to conservatives in their lives
extremely funny that Top Chef filmed a sponsored Cracker Barrel segment in August 2025 and it ended up as a time capsule of one very specific, very stupid moment in history
Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):
NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2
Mikel Arteta's goofball light bulb thing
Josh Kroenke's Make-a-Wish Mizzou basketball career
Doctor Strange projecting himself into 14 million different futures and seeing the one that makes the first guy happy and fulfilled but not the second (Everton's 2037-38 treble)
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this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990
Mostly this map shows how hard it would be to gerrymander Colorado in Republicans' favor at this point. The greater Springs area is the only large R-leaning population center they can carve up to their advantage (and for how much longer?) and it gets spread pretty thin here.
Big winners would be Jeff Crank and Gabe Evans, both of whose districts would become much more conservative — at the cost of eroding much of the R advantage in Lauren Boebert's 4th District. The drastically redrawn 7th District would go from solid D to roughly a tossup.
A new proposed congressional map in Colorado
This is roughly the new congressional map some Colorado GOP operatives are threatening to put on the 2026 ballot as an alternative to the Dem gerrymander (boundaries aren't quite exact at the sub-precinct level). Like the Dem plan, would apply only to 2028 & 2030 coloradonewsline.com/2026/04/16/c...
Colorado at 150: In April 1876, a group of Colorado Springs residents gathered for the inaugural meeting of the Rocky Mountain Club, the first organization dedicated to mountaineering in the soon-to-be state of Colorado, aka "The Switzerland of America.”
By @chasewoodruff.bsky.social
if the piece was about showing that there are areas of bipartisan support I'd agree. But it's about "problem solving" and "transcending dysfunction." Surely it should take note of the fact that none of the problem it mentions have been solved.
At a time of gridlock so crippling Congress can't even manage its core function to fund the government, Hurd and Neguse have found a way to rise above the tribalism, pandering and incivility to find common ground and a shared purpose. "Our politics, as you know, has gotten very performative tragically," Neguse said. "But we've got to resist that temptation and find a way to ultimately achieve common ground and get things done."
There are no other substantive policy matters discussed in the piece. Quite a strange way to make the case that these two stand for "getting things done" over "performative" politics.
"Irrespective of where the political winds are shifting in Washington, it's important that we have, I think, good faith actors here in our nation's capital who are going to fight for our state's interests," Neguse told CBS Colorado. "My job is to work with anybody and everybody in good faith, who's willing to try and solve a problem." Perhaps the biggest problem facing Colorado today is a lack of water. Neguse and Hurd penned an op-ed about their efforts to protect the Colorado River, including securing funding to acquire some of the oldest and largest water rights on the river. Last year, Xcel agreed to sell rights to 1 million-acre feet of water used for the Shoshone Hydroelectric Plant. The deal will maintain the current flow of water, which impacts up to 3 million Coloradans. The state and local governments raised $57 million for the purchase. Congress approved the other $40 million. But the U.S. Department of Interior is now refusing to release the money without giving a reason. "Fundamentally, I think there is a responsibility that we have as Congress to ensure the laws that we pass and the funding decisions that we made are implemented faithfully," Hurd told CBS Colorado. Hurd and Neguse are also working behind the scenes to ensure the dwindling supply of water from the Colorado River is divided fairly among the seven states that rely on it. The century old Colorado River Compact expires in October. If the upper basin and lower basin states can't agree on a new compact, the federal government will impose one.
6) They wrote an op-ed about funding being withheld by the administration, and again, the funding is still being withheld.
and for a bonus, 7) they're working behind the scenes on Colorado River Compact negotiations? That's going great!
The congressmen have also co-sponsored legislation to improve snowpack monitoring, fought to prevent the sale of public lands in Colorado, and pushed for the rehiring of thousands of forest service workers who fight wildfires.
3) Hurd's snowpack monitoring bill has not passed the Senate.
4) appears to refer to a joint statement they put out about a ruling by the Senate parliamentarian??
5) The administration has largely ignored calls to rehire USFS staff and Neguse was still sending letters about this last month.
When President Trump vetoed a bill in January to finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit — a project providing clean water for thousands of Coloradans in Hurd's district and Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert's district, Neguse stepped in. The U.S. House Assistant Minority Leader, Neguse took the floor and asked Democrats to help his Republican colleagues override the veto. "I'm speaking to my Democratic colleagues, to be clear, that it is important in this moment for members to support this override," Neguse said in Washington D.C. Three months later, Hurd would come to Neguse's aid, signing on to a letter to protect funding for the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder.
1) This veto override failed. There is still no federal funding for the Arkansas Valley Conduit.
2) Funding for NCAR was not protected by Congress. A ploy to tie it to an appropriations package in December failed.
A truly bizarre piece here that showers praise on Neguse and Hurd for "problem solving" and "transcending dysfunction" while neglecting to mention that none of their shared policy objectives on the half-dozen issues mentioned have been achieved.
This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist
congrats on the big get to the Harvard Institute of Politics
The only thing we can add is that as we’ve said before, Hickenlooper is just not the ideal target for the current push by some younger Democrats to purge what they call the “gerontocracy” from their positions of power. The motivation to primary Hickenlooper has as much to do with settling old local intra-Democratic scores as it does any meaningful policy differences. Hickenlooper has built an enduring political brand in this state, with deeper support among diverse stakeholders than his detractors have ever understood.
I can sympathize with Dem insiders who have to come up with anything to say about this race other than simply pointing to Hick's obvious advantages, but the idea that there are no "meaningful policy differences" between him and Julie Gonzales is la la land stuff www.coloradopols.com/diary/223229...
An AI platform that generated messages last year describing itself as “MechaHitler” while highlighting individuals’ Jewish surnames says in a lawsuit that Colorado has no legal basis for protections against “algorithmic discrimination” by AI systems.
By @chasewoodruff.bsky.social
Governor Jared Polis @GovofCO Colorado works best when we collaborate across state lines to protect our shared water future. Today, I joined Governor Mark Gordon ( @GovernorGordon ), Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham ( @GovMLG ), and Governor Spencer Cox ( @GovCox ) to address the proposed drawdown of Flaming Gorge and other Upper Basin reservoirs. We’re committed to smart, collaborative solutions that protect water users, support our economies, and ensure long-term sustainability across the Colorado River Basin.
Page from The Water Knife: Angel glanced over, surprised. "I didn't know Ellis was working that far upriver." "We're trying to figure out who's got senior rights up there. In case we need to start making new buyout offers." She made a face. "And California's already there, grabbing Upper Basin rights ahead of us. We thought renegotiating water transfers on the Compact was going to work in our favor. Now it scares the hell out of me. We're playing catch-up. Next thing we know, California could just own Colorado or Wyoming outright. They'll put the lower Colorado in a straw and claim the evap savings, and they'll buy the upper Colorado." "Rules are changing," Angel said. "Or maybe there never were any rules. Maybe all we have are habits. Things we do without even knowing why." She laughed. "You know my daughter still says the Pledge of Allegiance? I've got three different militias assigned to hunting down Zoners and Texans who cross our border, and Jessie is still putting her hand on her breast and saying the Pledge. Figure that one out. Every single state has its own border patrol, and my kid still calls herself an American." Angel shrugged. "I never really got patriotism." "No," Case laughed, "you wouldn't. Some of us used to believe in it, though. Now we just wave the American flag so the feds won't come down on us for recruiting militias." "Countries ..." Angel trailed off, thinking back on his own early life in Mexico, before the Cartel States. "They come and go." "And mostly we don't see it when it's coming," Case said. "There's a theory that if we don't have the right words in our vocabularies, we can't even see the things that are right in front of our faces. If we can't describe our reality accurately, we can't see it. Not the other way around. So someone says a word like Mexico or the United States, and maybe that word keeps us from even seeing what's right in front of us. Our own words make us blind." "Except you always see what's coming," Angel said. "Wel…
Page from The Water Knife: dust is speeding snowmelt, so even when we get a good year, it melts too fast or else evaporates. No one planned for that. "Tick. "Hydro-power." She laughed. "That's shot except in the spring because you can't get a decent head in the reservoirs." Tick. "And then there's California putting all these calls on the river." She was regarding her open palm as if she could divine the future from it. "I've got Ellis over on the Gunnison now, making offers, and I'm afraid we're too late there, too. It's like we can't catch a break. Someone is always ahead of us. Someone who sees more clearly than we do. Someone who has better words to describe where we're headed."
when you're "committed to smart, collaborative solutions that protect water users and support our economies"
Colorado officials say they’ve taken another big step towards launching preliminary passenger rail service between Denver and Fort Collins by 2029 — with or without approval of a new tax later this year to fund a larger Front Range rail project.
By @chasewoodruff.bsky.social
The obvious answer here is that the student protest movement was broadly smeared as anti-semitic and aligned with terrorists, and a variety of institutions from government, media and the universities acted as if that smear was true, threatening, suspending, expelling and even deporting students.
concerning news for the Pavlovian part of my brain that still believes "the Strokes finally make another good album" was one side of a Faustian monkey's paw thing with, uh, certain other events in March/April 2020
I’m sorry, if you’re a journalist and you’re still going to the White House Correspondents Dinner this year, genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, fuck off.
It's literally what NYT asked for when it got rid of the public editor position!
www.politico.com/story/2017/0...
No more jokes?
John Hickenlooper @Hickenlooper Before my start in public service, I was a geologist-turned-brewer who hadn’t even run for student council! But when there were talks of selling the naming rights of “Mile High” from the Broncos’ stadium, we led a grassroots campaign to keep it there.
John Hickenlooper talking about how "Empower Field at Mile High" was a "compromise" he "won" ten feet from a gate that just says "Empower Field"
"'Invesco Field at Mile High' is a testament to what you can accomplish through moderation and compromise" is like a throwaway joke told on a leftist sports podcast that lasted nine episodes in 2017
If you think a technical tweak to university admissions generates a 5% swing in vote share in an actual election as opposed to a push poll I have several free transits of Hormuz to sell you.